The Centerville Osterville-Marstons Mills is moving ahead with plans to reconstruct or fully rebuild its Osterville station on Main Street.

A request for quotations (RFQ) was released this week seeking proposals for a project manager and clerk of the works for what's estimated to be a $2.5-million project.

As detailed in the notice, the project involves the renovation or replacement of the Osterville station.

The Osterville station would be the last of the district's stations to be upgraded. The headquarters on Route 28 in Centerville opened in 1990; a new Marstons Mills station to accommodate 24-hour staffing opened in 2003.

Planning for the Osterville station has been ongoing, but prioritized behind Marstons Mills for service reasons.

The request for quotations is part of the planning and design process, for which funds were approved at this year's annual meeting.

A briefing on the RFQ is scheduled for July 28 at the fire headquarters. Proposals are due back to the fire station by Aug. 4.

24-month curfew review considered

The town council was to consider including a two-year review of the recently adopted 1 to 3 a.m. curfew ordinance.

Hyannis town councilor Harold Tobey offered the review language as an alterative to a previously suggested and rejected sunset provision. Tobey sought to have an automatic expiration included in the ordinance when it was first adopted in May.

"This review is respectfully suggested in place of a previously proposed sunset clause which would have automatically terminated the curfew program after a period of time," Tobey's agenda summary reads.

Marker for Maj. Hamlin birthplace recommended

The Community Preservation Committee is recommending $2,137.25 for the West Barnstable Historical Society to replace a historical marker for the birthplace of Major Micah Hamlin.

The current marker at Popplebottom Road and Route 149 has an incorrect death date and the society wants to replace the stone entirely as the repairs will neither last nor look good.

The incorrect marker was placed by the Barnstable Tercentenary Committee in 1939 (see photo, A:7). The Barnstable Historical Commission supports the correction of the marker.

The total cost represents a 30 percent discount, and includes a new granite tablet, lettering which is all hand drawn and hand cut, removal of the old foundation and tablet, new poured cement foundation, installation of the new tablet, tax and shipping. There have been funds raised for a total of $500 to go towards the new marker.

The council will consider the request at its Aug. 17 meeting.

Another award for town finances

It's four years in a row for Barnstable receiving the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada. The recipient is Finance Director Mark Milne.

Bucks for Barnstable

Town officials are pumped, and for good reason. State senators Terry Murray and Rob O'Leary announced this week that up to $1 million in Community Development Action Grant funding is on its way here to connect the proposed West End pump station in Hyannis via Main, Stevens and North Street to the wastewater management facility on Bearse's Way. About $76,000 of the funds will go toward site preparation for the new station at 725 Main St.

Centerville library sets meeting

The annual meeting of the board of trustees of Centerville Public Library will be held Aug. 14 at 6:30 p.m. at 585 Main St. in the village.

Planning board to hear another regulatory agreement

Hibel Realty LLC is ready to move ahead with a three-story, mixed-use building at the corner of Ocean and Main streets in Hyannis that will include the Cape's first underground parking garage. On Monday, the planning board will hear elements of a regulatory agreement under the town's Growth Incentive Zone to set maximum building height, establish density higher than 12 units per acre, and set the number of parking spaces.